The awards reflect Accenture's success in adopting OPN's Specialized
approach which is aimed at enabling partners to establish industry
recognition by following a formal process to become Specialized in key
Oracle solution areas.

Since the award program was launched in 2004, Accenture has won a total
of 14 Oracle awards in North America. This is its fifth award for
technology momentum in seven years. Accenture's awards were in the
categories of:

Technology Momentum: This award recognizes Accenture's efforts to
increase customer acceptance and market share of Oracle Database and
Oracle Fusion Middleware. Over the past year, Accenture increased its
investment in Oracle technology, including the Accenture
Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO), a reference architecture and
implementation guide pre-integrated with more than 30 Oracle Fusion
Middleware products. AFPO helps to reduce implementation efforts by as
much as 30 percent while increasing quality and reducing risk. AFPO
delivers a functioning development environment on day one so that
clients can begin customizing and integrating the very next day. In the
past year, adoption of AFPO grew from 14 clients to more than 50.

In March, Accenture used an Oracle Exalytics machine to create a
powerful proof of concept using Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation
Suite, Oracle TimesTen, Oracle Essbase and Oracle Endeca Commerce to
show clients how predictive analytics across both structured and
unstructured data can drive decision making at all levels of the
enterprise. Using publically available data from the New York Stock
Exchange, the proof of concept showed how Oracle's latest technologies
can enhance an existing business intelligence system-in this example, by
quickly analyzing and aggregating 350 million stock exchange trades into
a meaningful presentation to enable faster decision making by investment
fund managers.

Accenture is currently conducting a proof-of-concept with a customer to
enable faster-to-market analytics by replicating or aggregating
transactional data directly in-memory using Oracle Exalytics.

Utilities: Accenture worked closely with Baltimore Gas and
Electric Company (BGE) in modernizing the company's legacy customer
information system by providing a suite of Oracle Utilities products as
part of a transformational strategy focused on enhancing customer
service - including introducing new technologies and innovative services
to better serve customer needs - providing more transparency into
customer and revenue cycle processes, while streamlining and simplifying
business processes.

"BGE and Accenture have a superb track record of teaming together to
deliver strategic initiatives focused on enhancing the customer
experience," says Stephen J. Woerner, senior vice president and chief
operating officer for BGE. "Accenture played a key role in the
successful implementation of a modern customer billing system, replacing
our more than 20-year-old customer information system. Accenture also
assisted us in effectively managing significant changes across the
enterprise, including the back office and customer contact center, so
that our employees, and in particular, customer care representatives,
were ready for day one business and technical operation."

BGE's implementation of a suite of Oracle Utilities technologies is one
of the most transformational customer initiatives BGE has undertaken in
more than two decades, providing the foundational system for all
customer operations and positioning BGE to deliver smart grid
capabilities for the benefit of its customers.

This year's winners were selected from more than 247 nominations in 32
categories submitted by Oracle business partners. Accenture will receive
the awards at a special ceremony on October 2.

"Once again we're thrilled to be recognized for our technology
excellence and accomplishments in helping clients succeed with Oracle
solutions," said Terri Strauss, managing director, North America Oracle
Practice at Accenture. "These awards are a great acknowledgement of the
innovative work carried out by our teams every day, delivering real
business value to our joint clients."

"Accenture has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation in
delivering proven, Oracle-based solutions that solve our joint
customers' most critical business challenges," said Andy Bailey, senior
vice president, Strategic Alliances, Oracle. "We congratulate Accenture
in achieving the 2012 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of
the Year - North America in these various categories. This achievement
is a testament to their dedication to excellence and to providing
customers services that drive real business value and results."

Accenture is a Diamond level partner in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) -
the highest level available in OPN - and has completed 34
Specializations, including seven Advanced Specializations.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with 257,000 people serving clients in more than
120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive
capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive
research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture
collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance
businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of
US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of
Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better
develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers
resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products
and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product
portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest
enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through
Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency
development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out
more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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